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In 1926, George Samuel Clason, a Missourian published the first series of pamphlets on thrift and financial success using the parables set in ancient Babylon. It became popular during the Great Depression to millions of people and the most famous was the “The Richest Man in Babylon”.

Meet Pete and Virginia. At about 8am on a lovely spring day, they would set up the beach umbrellas and chairs. Pete would carry the mattresses and lay them over on the beach chairs, while Virginia brings the umbrellas to every pair of beach chairs. Then, Pete stands the umbrella in between the beach chairs.

More often than not, we get the inspiration to pursue our dreams from the most unexpected places. We are all endowed with different sets of natural skills and abilities which; sometimes without our knowing so, are closely linked with our passions/dreams.

It dawned on me that I was not educated very well on how to deal with money when I was young. I can’t remember from elementary to high school that I was taught about money. In college I was a computer science major and I took some basic accounting where I learned about credit and debit. That's about it.

Growing up my dad always told me, "For whatever you do, the end must justify the means." I believe he was the most honest and hardworking government lawyer/prosecutor in the city where we live in the Philippines. He dreamed of traveling to Rome but never ever taken an airplane flight in his entire life.

The basic rule of budgeting came from Thomas Jefferson that never spend your money before you have it. When America was young he may have thought that the concept is simple but in today’s day and age when instant gratification is the norm in the society, he would have said “AH...

When I came back from a vacation, there was a postcard on my desk about my employer campaign to take vacation before the end of the year. I told myself, “This is nice, and I can take another one.” Unfortunately, I already exhausted my 4 weeks’ vacation, and 1 week personal leave. I was about to toss away the card but the red highlight that 429 million vacation days went unused caught my attention. At lunch break, I googled “Unused Vacation” – top 3 results were: